Cameron,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Margherita,<br>
I'm interested to understand a bit more about your idea and see
how we could align it with OSGeo-Live.<br>
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One of the key success factors we have with OSGeo-Live is that it
is continually maintained and updated. I could list many projects
which attract volunteers or people to create initial
documentation, but then the documentation quickly looses relevance
because it is not maintained. </div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>
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So I suggest that you ask:<br>
* How will the vademecum be maintained?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The idea is to produce a booklet which introduces the most important GIS software available for the linux users. For more technical and updated details, the reference will remain the web site. For example, the Vademecum produced in 2009 (that I linked in the previous email) about the most popular software available in GNU/linux, is re-printed every year for the Linux day which takes place in Italy in October, and I think it is still valid because it is kept very general, maybe only slight modifications are made from year to year.</div>
<div>The project of expand the availability of the booklets on various topics such as GIS, cryptography, etc. is now under discussion. The idea was raised by a member of a LUG, who asked the other members if they were available to write one of the booklets about the topic that they like the most. The online repository is currently: <a href="http://git.home.trueelena.org/gitweb/?p=docs/guide-foss.git;a=summary">http://git.home.trueelena.org/gitweb/?p=docs/guide-foss.git;a=summary</a></div>
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* Who is our target audience? <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The target is people about to approach Gnu/Linux world, curious to know what is the offer in term of GIS. It shall be distributed during events such as Linux day, fairs, etc. The source text will be available on the repository under the license CC-BY-SA (most likely), and will be printed in occasion of the events. We are exploring the possibility to leave the last page empty, in order to place there the sponsor which will support the printing.</div>
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* Would it be possible to develop a production pipeline which uses
existing Project Overviews and/or Quickstarts (which are
maintained) to create the vademecum?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I will explore also this possibility, perhaps with Luca if he's available.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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* If the use case is substantially different to existing
OSGeo-Live templates and use case, then it might be a candidate
for another documentation template.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The template is already there, available in the git repository that I linked. It should be the same template of the other booklets.</div>
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* However, also be aware that small, concise documentation is much
easier to maintain than larger docs. Hence, I'd suggest if we are
thinking long term, we should aim to minimise the creation of
extra documentation formats, and try to automatically reformat
existing material. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I will surely rummage from the official documentation and see what can I keep and what I should add/put in other terms.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div>
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On 27/03/13 21:54, Beccati, Alan wrote:<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma">Dear Margerita,
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<div>Looks like a good option for the entire project to have,
furthermore there is already overview material for all
applications in English which gets translated already and that
can suit some booklet sections. You might consider building it
directly with the rst based system that OSGeo already has in
place, picking well known sections from the existing documents
and reformatting them into booklet format.</div>
<div>I'm not much deeply into that system however to assist you
with the details, maybe someone with more experience in that
part can investigate feasibility further.<br>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Alan</div>
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<div>Dear all,
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<div>an Italian LUG (Linux User Group) is preparing a
series of vademecum in Italian on various FOSS in order
to distribute them during events/conferences. My idea
was to prepare a vademecum about the OSGeo-Live project.
The vademecum will be a booklet of 16 pages in A6
format, similar to [1]. I was wondering if you think
this kind of marketing item would be worth to be created
in English by the collaborative effort of people here
(who is interested to collaborate?) and then translated
in Italian and other languages, or else I should just
write it directly in Italian.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div>[1] <a href="http://www.linuxday.it/2010/docs/vademecumlinuxday2009_1.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.linuxday.it/2010/docs/vademecumlinuxday2009_1.pdf</a><br clear="all">
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